2025 Extremaduran regional election

2025 Extremaduran regional election
21 December 2025
All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered891,038 0.1%
Turnout541,726 (60.8%)
9.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader María Guardiola Miguel Ángel Gallardo Óscar Fernández
Party PP PSOE Vox
Leader since 16 July 2022 23 March 2024 11 November 2025
Leader's seat Cáceres Badajoz Cáceres
Last election 28 seats, 38.8% 28 seats, 39.9% 5 seats, 8.1%
Seats won 29 18 11
Seat change 1 10 6
Popular vote 228,991 136,838 89,768
Percentage 43.1% 25.8% 16.9%
Swing 4.3 pp 14.1 pp 8.8 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Irene de Miguel
Party Podemos–IU–AV
Leader since 27 November 2018
Leader's seat Badajoz
Last election 4 seats, 6.0%
Seats won 7
Seat change 3
Popular vote 54,541
Percentage 10.3%
Swing 4.3 pp
Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura
President before election

María Guardiola
PP

Elected President

TBD

A regional election was held in Extremadura on Sunday, 21 December 2025, to elect the 12th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. This marked the first time that an Extremaduran president exercised the legal prerogative to call a snap election.

The 2023 election had seen the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party form a coalition under the presidency of María Guardiola, but not before she was forced to backtrack after having pledged not to let the latter into her cabinet. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who was ousted from power only for the second time in history, saw a leadership change from Guillermo Fernández Vara—who died from stomach cancer in October 2025—to the then-president of the provincial deputation of Badajoz, Miguel Ángel Gallardo. The PP–Vox coalition collapsed in July 2024 over a strategic movement from the latter's national leadership, with Guardiola leading a minority government from that point onwards. Amid growing tensions with Vox, unable to pass her 2026 budget through parliament and seeking to capitalize on various corruption probes affecting the national government under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Guardiola called an early election in what became the first of a series of regional elections held in PP-controlled regions.[1]

Political stability and the continuity of the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant were seen as key themes going into the election and in ensuing negotiations.[2] The campaign was shaken by a string of sexual misconduct allegations—particularly the Salazar affair affecting the ruling PSOE in Spain, and accusations against Guardiola's official driver and the PP's local mayor in Navalmoral de la Mata—as well as by a theft in a postal office that saw the PP spread suspicions of electoral fraud.[3][4] The election resulted in the PSOE's worst historical result in the region, with the demobilization of part of its electorate as it lost 10 of its 28 seats, in what was attributed both to a punishment of Gallardo and to growing discontent with Sánchez's national government.[5] Guardiola's PP, while having a strong performance, fell well short of its goal of securing an overall majority of 33, remaining dependant on support from a resurgent Vox, which doubled its results. The left-wing United for Extremadura alliance, comprising Podemos and allies of Sumar (PSOE's ruling partner in Spain), benefitted from the Socialist collapse and obtained its best historical result. The combined vote for right-wing parties was 60%, which was the highest in history, albeit under the lowest voter turnout since the first regional election in 1983.[6][7]

A political deadlock ensued as government formation negotiations between PP and Vox failed to deliver a deal,[8] resulting in a failed investiture attempt by Guardiola in March 2026.[9] As a result, the scenario of a repeat election taking place in 28 June—if no government is elected before 4 May—remains a possibility.[9]

Background

The 2023 regional election saw a parliamentary majority for the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party, despite the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) remaining the largest overall.[10] PP candidate María Guardiola's initial refusal to form a coalition government with Vox led to several weeks of public clashes[11][12]—seeing Guardiola herself proclaiming that she could not allow "those who deny gender-based violence, who use bold strokes, dehumanize immigrants and display a banner on which they throw the LGTBI flag into a trash can" into her government[13]—and in the PSOE and United for Extremadura (the alliance between Podemos and United Left) retaining control of the Assembly's bureau as the PP and Vox voted for their own candidates.[14] Ultimately, Guardiola was forced to U-turn and form a PP–Vox cabinet by her own party's national leadership,[15] then embroiled in the 23 July 2023 general election campaign.[16][17] This political episode was said to have contributed to the PP's failure to meet expectations in the general election by evidencing the party's willingness to allow the far-right into government despite public pledges to the contrary.[18][19][20]

Guillermo Fernández Vara, who had been president of Extremadura from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2023, announced his withdrawal from regional politics after failing to secure investiture,[11][21] being proposed as a senator instead.[22] In December 2023, Vara announced that he was suffering from stomach cancer,[23] which ultimately led to his death in October 2025.[24] Miguel Ángel Gallardo, president of the provincial deputation of Badajoz and regarded as a critic of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's leadership, was elected in March 2024 as Vara's successor at the helm of the regional PSOE branch.[25][26] In May 2025, Gallardo was indicted on charges of perverting the course of justice and influence peddling related to the allegedly illegal hiring in 2017 of Sánchez's brother in the deputation he presided over.[27][28] He denied any wrongdoing and suggested that he was the target of a lawfare campaign,[29][30] but his public standing was damaged by his seeking of parliamentary immunity, in a move that the High Court of Justice of Extremadura deemed to be law evasion.[31][32][33]

On 11 July 2024, Vox's national leader Santiago Abascal forced the break up of all PP–Vox regional governments over a controversy regarding the nationwide distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors among the autonomous communities.[34][35][36] Vox's single regional minister in Guardiola's cabinet, Ignacio Higuero, quit the party in order to preserve his office,[37][38] though his involvement in a resume padding scandal eventually led to his resignation in August 2025.[39][40] Budget negotiations in the autumn of 2025 hinted at the possibility of Guardiola calling a snap election for early next year in the event of a parliamentary deadlock,[41][42] which she ultimately did in an attempt to take advantage of internal polling showing a weak opposition.[43][44]

Overview

Under the 2011 Statute of Autonomy, the Assembly of Extremadura was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[45]

Electoral system

Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of their political rights, provided that they were not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote.[46][47][48]

The Assembly of Extremadura was entitled to a maximum of 65 seats, with the electoral law setting its size at that number. All members were elected in two multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 20 seats and the remaining 25 being distributed in proportion to their populations—using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional voting system, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes (which included blank ballots) being applied in each constituency. Alternatively, parties failing to reach the threshold in one of the constituencies were also entitled to enter the seat distribution as long as they ran candidates in both districts and reached five percent regionally.[46][49]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Assembly constituency was entitled the following seats:[50]

Seats Constituencies
36 Badajoz
29 Cáceres

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occurred after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term were to be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when required, by the designated substitutes.[51][52]

Election date

The term of the Assembly of Extremadura expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the scheduled date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.[45][53][54] The previous election was held on 28 May 2023, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 28 May 2027. The election decree was required to be published in the DOE no later than 4 May 2027, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible date for election day on Sunday, 27 June 2027.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Extremadura at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one.[53][55] In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.[56]

The political deadlock resulting from the 2023 election result, in which no single party secured an absolute majority of seats, was briefly commented as potentially leading to a repeat election as PP's María Guardiola opposed letting the far-right Vox into government.[57] Guardiola eventually bowed to political pressure from her party at the national level and signed a coalition agreement with Vox,[15][16][17] being elected as regional president on 14 July 2023 and dashing any prospect of an imminent early election.[58] The possibility of an early election call was again floated in late 2024, after Vox's split with her government left Guardiola in a minority and unable to get her 2025 budget passed through parliament, but this attempt ultimately failed to materialize.[59][60]

Guardiola threatened in September 2025 with a snap election if opposition parties blocked her government's 2026 budget.[41] Speculation then emerged that the national leadership of the People's Party (PP) was planning to advance the elections in Aragon and Extremadura (and possibly the Balearic Islands) to make them take place near or concurrently with the Castilian-Leonese election scheduled for early 2026.[61][62][63] While the alleged justification would be the regional governments' failure to approve their 2026 budgets, the true motive was attributed to PP plans—not without risk—to turn the simultaneous election call into a referendum on the national government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.[64][65] The regional PP ruled out any plans for a joint election call and defended their president's "full freedom" to make her independent decisions.[66][67] After PSOE and Vox hinted at voting down Guardiola's budget,[68][69] she announced the parliament's dissolution on 27 October, with the election being scheduled for 21 December 2025.[43][70]

The Assembly of Extremadura was officially dissolved on 28 October 2025 with the publication of the dissolution decree in the DOE, setting election day for 21 December.[50]

Outgoing parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.[71][72]

Parliamentary composition in October 2025
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 28 28
People's Parliamentary Group PP 28 28
Vox Extremadura Parliamentary Group Vox 5 5
United for Extremadura
Parliamentary Group 		Podemos 3 4
IU 1

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least two percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[73][74] Amendments to the electoral law in 2024 increased requirements for a balanced composition of men and women in the electoral lists through the use of a zipper system.[75]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances 		Candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PSOE
List
 Miguel Ángel Gallardo Social democracy 39.9% 28 [25]
[76]
[77]
PP
List
 María Guardiola Conservatism
Christian democracy 		38.8% 28 [78]
Vox
List
 Óscar Fernández Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism 		8.1% 5 [79]
Podemos–
IU–AV
List
 Irene de Miguel Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism 		6.0% 4 [78]
[82]
[83]

Timetable

The key dates are listed below (all times are CET):[84]

  • 27 October: The election decree is issued with the countersign of the president, after deliberation in the Regional Government.[50]
  • 28 October: Formal dissolution of parliament and start of prohibition period on the inauguration of public works, services or projects.
  • 31 October: Initial constitution of provincial and zone electoral commissions with judicial members.
  • 3 November: Division of constituencies into polling sections and stations.
  • 7 November: Deadline for parties and federations to report on their electoral alliances.
  • 10 November: Deadline for electoral register consultation for the purpose of possible corrections.
  • 17 November: Deadline for parties, federations, alliances, and groupings of electors to present electoral lists.
  • 19 November: Publication of submitted electoral lists in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE).
  • 24 November: Official proclamation of validly submitted electoral lists.
  • 25 November: Publication of proclaimed electoral lists in the DOE.
  • 26 November: Deadline for the selection of polling station members by sortition.
  • 4 December: Deadline for the appointment of non-judicial members to provincial and zone electoral commissions.
  • 5 December: Official start of electoral campaigning.[50]
  • 11 December: Deadline to apply for postal voting.
  • 16 December: Start of legal ban on electoral opinion polling publication; deadline for non-resident citizens (electors residing abroad (CERA) and citizens temporarily absent from Spain) to vote by mail.
  • 17 December: Deadline for postal and temporarily absent voting.
  • 18 December: Deadline for CERA voting.
  • 19 December: Last day of electoral campaigning.[50]
  • 20 December: Official election silence ("reflection day").
  • 21 December: Election day (polling stations open at 9 am and close at 8 pm or once voters present in a queue at/outside the polling station at 8 pm have cast their vote); provisional vote counting.
  • 26 December: Start of general vote counting, including CERA votes.
  • 29 December: Deadline for the general vote counting.
  • 7 January: Deadline for the proclamation of elected members.
  • 20 January: Deadline for the reconvening of parliament.[85]
  • 16 February: Deadline for the publication of definitive election results in the DOE.

Campaign

Party slogans

Party or alliance Original slogan English translation Ref.
PSOE « Hazlo o lo harán » "Do it or they will" [86]
PP « Más confianza. Más Extremadura » "More confidence. More Extremadura" [87]
Vox « Sentido común » "Common sense" [88]
UxE « La fuerza de Extremadura » "The force/strength of Extremadura"[b] [89]

Election debates

RTVE proposed holding an election debate between the main candidates of the parties with parliamentary representation.[90] Regional president María Guardiola rejected attending after criticizing the invitation as a "political strategy" by the government of Spain,[91] but PSOE, Vox and UxE confirmed their participation, with the debate being scheduled regardless of Guardiola's participation.[92][93] On 4 December, the PP confirmed that no party member would attend the debate.[94]

2025 Extremaduran regional election debates
Date Organisers Moderator(s)     P  Present[c]    S  Surrogate[d]    NI  Not invited   I  Invited    A  Absent invitee 
PSOE PP Vox UxE J–L Cs UED M+J PACMA NEx Audience Ref.
11 December Canal Extremadura Manu Pérez P
Gallardo 		P
Guardiola 		P
Fernández 		P
De Miguel 		P
González 		P
Segura 		P
Viera 		P
Blanco 		S
Luna 		P
Rubio 		12.1%
(40,000) 		[95]
[96]
18 December RTVE Xabier Fortes P
Gallardo 		A P
Fernández 		P
De Miguel 		NI NI NI NI NI NI 17.7%
(65,000) 		[94]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 33 seats are required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Graphical summary

Local regression trend line of poll results from 28 May 2023 to 21 December 2025, with each line corresponding to a political party.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 33 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Regional Government of Extremadura.

All candidates
Gallardo vs. Guardiola

Predicted President

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood for each leader to become president.

Voter turnout

The table below shows registered voter turnout on election day, without including non-resident citizens.

Province Time
11:00 14:00 18:00 20:00
2025 2023 2025 +/– 2023 2025 +/– 2023 2025 +/–
Badajoz 8.70% 41.94% 35.51% −6.43 56.87% 49.95% −6.92 72.14% 62.40% −9.74
Cáceres 9.03% 41.18% 36.16% −5.02 57.54% 51.81% −5.73 73.07% 63.29% −9.78
Total 8.83% 41.65% 35.76% −5.89 57.12% 50.64% −6.48 72.49% 62.73% −9.76
Sources[98][99]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 21 December 2025 Assembly of Extremadura election results
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 228,991 43.12 +4.34 29 +1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 136,838 25.77 −14.13 18 −10
Vox (Vox) 89,768 16.90 +8.77 11 +6
United for Extremadura We Can–United Left–Green Alliance (Podemos–IU–AV) 54,541 10.27 +4.26 7 +3
Together for Extremadura–Raise Extremadura (Juntos–Levanta)1 4,181 0.79 −2.85 0 ±0
New Extremennism–Forward Extremadura (NEx) 3,200 0.60 New 0 ±0
Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA) 2,302 0.43 New 0 ±0
United Extremadura (EU) 1,548 0.29 New 0 ±0
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 1,331 0.25 −0.64 0 ±0
A Worthy Extremadura–Sovereignty and Work (UED–SyT)2 1,221 0.23 −0.14 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (M+J) 916 0.17 −0.01 0 ±0
Blank ballots 6,229 1.17 −0.25
Total 531,066 65 ±0
Valid votes 531,066 98.03 +0.26
Invalid votes 10,660 1.97 −0.26
Votes cast / turnout 541,726 60.80 −9.55
Abstentions 349,312 39.20 +9.55
Registered voters 891,038
Sources[71][100]
Footnotes:
  • 1 Together for Extremadura–Raise Extremadura results are compared to the combined totals of Together for Extremadura, Raise Extremadura and Cáceres Alive in the 2023 election.
  • 2 A Worthy Extremadura–Sovereignty and Work results are compared to A Worthy Extremadura totals in the 2023 election.
Popular vote
PP
 
 43.12%
PSOE
 
 25.77%
Vox
 
 16.90%
UxE
 
 10.27%
Others
 
 2.77%
Blank ballots
 
 1.17%
Seats
PP
 
 44.62%
PSOE
 
 27.69%
Vox
 
 16.92%
UxE
 
 10.77%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency PP PSOE Vox UxE
% S % S % S % S
Badajoz 42.6 16 26.1 10 17.2 6 10.4 4
Cáceres 43.9 13 25.3 8 16.4 5 10.1 3
Total 43.1 29 25.8 18 16.9 11 10.3 7
Sources[71][100]

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Nomination of María Guardiola (PP)
Ballot → 4 March 2026 6 March 2026
Required majority → 33 out of 65 N Simple N
Yes
  • • PP (29)
29 / 65
29 / 65
No
36 / 65
36 / 65
Abstentions
0 / 65
0 / 65
Absentees
0 / 65
0 / 65
Sources[71][101][102]

Notes

  1. ^ Unofficially.[80][81]
  2. ^ The slogan plays with the meaning of fuerza, which in English translates both as "force" and "strength".
  3. ^ Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
  4. ^ Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu Within UxE.
  6. ^ a b Within Sumar.
  7. ^ a b c d Does not include non-resident citizens.
  8. ^ Responses denoting a party's generic candidate are aggregated to that party's main candidate/leader at the time of the poll.

References

Opinion poll sources

  1. ^ "El PP puede doblar a un PSOE hundido y queda al borde de la mayoría absoluta, según Sigma Dos para EL MUNDO". El Mundo (in Spanish). 21 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Sánchez lleva al desastre al PSOE en Extremadura según los sondeos: Guardiola, cerca de la mayoría absoluta". El Español (in Spanish). 21 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b c "Último sondeo de Extremadura: Guardiola sigue al alza y el PSOE a la baja, pero sólo un gran final le daría la mayoría absoluta". El Español (in Spanish). 15 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Guardiola roza la mayoría absoluta, Vox sube y el PSOE se hunde con su peor resultado de la historia". Okdiario (in Spanish). 15 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Guardiola roza la mayoría absoluta en Extremadura, Vox crece y el PSOE se hundiría con su peor resultado histórico". El Debate. 15 December 2025.
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  7. ^ "El PP aprovecha la quiebra del PSOE con el feminismo: Guardiola se vuelca con las mujeres para hundir a Gallardo y no depender de Vox". El Mundo (in Spanish). 13 December 2025.
  8. ^ "El hundimiento del PSOE da a Guardiola la victoria pero gobernará de la mano de Vox". El Mundo. 14 December 2025.
  9. ^ "El PP mejora su resultado, pero seguirá necesitando a Vox, más fuerte que en 2023". El País (in Spanish). 15 December 2025.
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  11. ^ "El PP se queda a dos escaños de la mayoría absoluta en Extremadura, y obtendría 10 diputados más que el PSOE". Onda Cero. 15 December 2025.
  12. ^ "[A] EXTREMADURA. Encuesta Celeste-Tel 15/12/2025: PP 42,9% (31), PSOE 32,2% (21), VOX 12,8% (8), PODEMOS-IU-AV 8,7% (5), JUNTOS-LEVANTA 1,5%". Electográfica. 15 December 2025.
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  14. ^ a b c "El PP extremeño gana en votos, el PSOE toca suelo y el apoyo de los jóvenes impulsa a Vox". El Periódico (in Spanish). 14 December 2025.
  15. ^ "Encuesta DYM. El PP sumaría más que toda la izquierda en Extremadura pero seguiría necesitando a Vox para gobernar". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 15 December 2025.
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  18. ^ "El PP rompe su techo en Extremadura con un castigo fuerte al PSOE". La Razón (in Spanish). 8 December 2025.
  19. ^ "EP Extremadura (1 dic): Vox roza el 13% con el PSOE bajando de nuevo". Electomanía (in Spanish). 1 December 2025.
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